event to be recognized as an act of divine intervention at the shrine. He proclaimed the miracle nearly a decade after Bernadette Moriau, born on September 23, 1939 in northern France, attended a blessing

year, 1933, six years before the outbreak of World War II: - The shrine of Our Lady of Beauraing, near Dinant, where Mary appeared in 1932-33, dressed in white and crowned with a royal diadem, wearing

Mother of God with her tender gaze The Byzantine Rite Catholic Abbey of Saint Mary in Grottaferrata, near Frascati, Italy, was founded in 1004 by a group of monks from Calabria, guided by Saint Nil of Rossano

in our midst. Let us offer him our hands to caress the little ones and the poor, our feet to draw near to our brothers and sisters, our arms to shore up the weak and to work in the Lord’s vineyard, our

day of the Assumption in the year 1001. He had an image of Mary embroidered on his royal cloak, and near his palace he built a splendid church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. On the day of the Assumption 1038

relationship with the Virgin was renewed While he was serving as the pastor of the parish of Qaryatayn, near Palmyra, Syria, Father Mourad was abducted by the Islamic State group on May 21, 2015. He was a hostage

Her visit to Tenango is the culmination of her pilgrimage to this country. During the solemn Mass, near the icon of Czestochowa on pilgrimage around the world, the bishop of the place solemnly announced

Elias, bishop of Jerusalem, and finished at the expense of Emperor Justinian (527-565). It is located near the Temple area, where the Blessed Virgin spent her childhood, consecrated to the divine service.

to me in the morning of my life Come and smile to me again... Mother... now that evening is drawing near! ... I no longer fear the splendor of your supreme glory With you I have suffered and now on your

the eastern sanctuary. People believed that the veil was some type of a shirt. Pilgrims came to pray near the veil. Since it was thought to offer a type of divine protection, shirts of those going to war [...] the idea of being close to something that might have touched Jesus captured my imagination. Praying near the Veil has taken on great meaning to me. Some of my most meaningful times of prayers for my family